Trends · data through July 2026

Gas & Auto trends in Chester

Iceflower tracks 51 stores from 28 gas & auto chains in Chester. Esso grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Halfords and Shell.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
28
Tracked stores
51
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked gas & auto chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Esso and Halfords sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 E Esso - -0.5%
2 H Halfords - -13.2%
3 S Shell logo Shell - -13.8%
  • Gas Station
  • Auto Repair Service
  • Auto Parts Store
  • Vehicle Service
  • Car Wash
  • Parking
  • Car Dealer
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

51 tracked store locations in Chester, colored by category.

  • Gas Station (29)
  • Auto Repair Service (6)
  • Auto Parts Store (4)
  • Vehicle Service (4)
  • Car Wash (3)
  • Parking (2)
  • Car Dealer (2)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 S Shell logo Shell 10
  • 2 B BP logo BP 9
  • 3 E Esso 4
  • 4 H Halfords 3
  • 5 I IMO Car Wash 2
  • 6 G Grindley Brook Garage 1
  • 7 F FMG Repair Services 1
  • 8 N National Car Parks logo National Car Parks 1
  • 9 S Station Motors 1
  • 10 E Essar Oil Stanlow 1
  • 11 E Ellesmere Port Garage Services 1
  • 12 C Chester Hand Car Wash 1
  • 13 D Direct Car Keys 1
  • 14 C Car World Direct 1
  • 15 T Tarporley Service Centre 1
  • 16 G Greenacre Garage 1
  • 17 N Newbridge Farm Milk 1
  • 18 A Apcoa 1
  • 19 R Roadchef 1
  • 20 T TPS 1
  • 21 C Cheshire Oaks Service Station 1
  • 22 C Chester Tyres Ltd 1
  • 23 E Enterprise 1
  • 24 B Barnhills of Broxton 1
  • 25 H Hyundai logo Hyundai 1
  • 26 C Chester Broughton 1
  • 27 H Halliwell Jones 1
  • 28 D D.A. Roberts Fuels 1

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